The Inverted Mirror presents the collections of "la
Caixa" Foundation and MACBA together outside of their respective venues fo
r the first time. This survey of art from the late 1940s to the present inc
ludes painting\, sculpture\, photography\, and video and is organized into
six thematic sections: Dau Al Set and El Paso Group\; Function and Reenactm
ent in Photography: Landschaft\; Function and Reenactment in Photography: T
he Self and the Other\; The Limits of Performance\; The Inverted Mirror\; a
nd Levity\, Gravity\, and Other Impossibilities.

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From the post–Span
ish Civil War movement Dau Al Set and the El Paso Group\, founded in 1957\,
to the Düsseldorf and Vancouver schools of photography\, the selected arti
sts and currents produced major turning points in contemporary art. These h
istorical moments reflect the areas represented in depth in these collectio
ns and\, among other highlights\, show the beginning of Art Informel in Spa
in through the work of Rafael Canogar\, Antonio Saura\, and Antoni Tàpies\,
and the diverse approaches to objectivity in contemporary photography thro
ugh the works of for example. The exhibition also features Gego\, Julian Sc
hnabel\, Michelangelo Pistoletto\, Sigmar Polke\, and Martha Rosler\, among
others. In addition to the rise of significant trends\, the show reveals m
eeting points and divergences between the two collections\, as well as the
dialogue between certain international developments and Spanish art.